Miriam Eshkol

While studying in Jerusalem, she rented a room in the yard of the official residence of Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and his wife Elisheva Kaplan.

In March 1964, she married Prime Minister Levi Eshkol at a ceremony conducted by the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.

[citation needed] After the marriage, Eshkol continued to work as a Knesset librarian, but accompanied her husband on his international travels.

She headed the public committee for the establishment of Beit HaLohem, a center for disabled military veterans and was founding president of the Jewish-Arab Friendship League.

[citation needed] After Levi Eshkol's passing in February 1969, she headed efforts to establish an archive and collection of his personal papers.

Eshkol with her husband and the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his wife Mary in 1965 at the Dorchester Hotel in London
Gravesite of Levi Eshkol and his wife Miriam at Mt Herzl, Jerusalem, Israel